Random US gangbangers? Barely human savages
Mexican Drug Cartels? Heavily armed savages
Russian Mob? Well dressed savages
Random muslims that just so happen to be criminals? I can’t even type what they call them.
But the Italians? Suave, well-spoken, extremely resourceful and classy.
I’m not sure what causes it. The most famous mob movies all talk about how they’re ultimately a bunch of backstabbers but they’re still so heavily mythologized. It wasn’t even that long ago that they had influence, we’re talking the late 80s where things started to take a turn.
Lately I’ve been turning over in my mind a comparison between the mafia and Zionism.
One example is the fact that Moe Dalitz, a mobster tycoon received the Torch of Liberty Award by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith (the ADL) in 1982. https://web.archive.org/web/20251205212311/https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/moe-dalitz/
A lot of top American mobsters were also Jewish so there was some serious overlap.
were they zionists?